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Free Thinking Episodes

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    The Frieze Masters Free Thinking Conversation about Art

    Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Michael Govan talks art with Philip Dodd.

  2. Rebecca Solnit, Truth, National Poetry Day

    Who holds the power? US activist and author Rebecca Solnit talks to Shahidha Bari.

  3. From the Spains to Latinx, including Iain Sinclair's Peruvian Journey

    Rana Mitter talks to Jason Webster, Ed Morales, Iain Sinclair and Iwona Blazwick.

  4. Mark Haddon

    Anne McElvoy talks to Mark Haddon about his career and latest novel The Porpoise.

  5. Myth making, satire and Caryl Churchill

    Interviews w/ illustrator Gerald Scarfe & artist Kiki Smith+ Caryl Churchill's new plays.

  6. Anxiety

    Comedian Sofie Hagen, Colombian novelist H茅ctor Abad & Isabel Hardman join Shahidha Bari.

  7. Surveillance and Secrets from the Archives

    Matthew Sweet on surveillance capitalism, The Third Man and Stieg Larsson's archive.

  8. Back to the '80s

    From Stranger Things to Stephen King's It - Matthew Sweet and guests revisit '80s culture.

  9. Landmark: Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation.

    Lauren Elkin, Lisa Appignanesi and Ben Moser debate Susan Sontag's life and ideas.

  10. Tolerance, censorship and free speech

    Susan Neiman, Ursula Owen and Christopher Hampton join Anne McElvoy.

  11. James Ellroy

    Philip Dodd is in conversation with American author James Ellroy.

  12. Book Parts and Difficulty

    Matthew Sweet looks at frontispieces, titles and marginalia, and hard texts.

  13. New angles on post-war Germany and Austria

    Anne McElvoy with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell and Tom Smith

  14. Camille Paglia

    Camille Paglia in conversation with Philip Dodd about free speech and feminism.

  15. An insider's view of war

    Ex-marine and journalist Elliot Ackerman on al-Qaeda and the Iraq War.

  16. Caine Prize, Ivo van Hove, Female desire

    Shahidha Bari looks at staging Ayn Rand's ideas and meets the 2019 Caine Prize winner.

  17. Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good

    Matthew Sweet and guests on Iris Murdoch's thought and writing (15 Jul 1919鈥�8 Feb 1999).

  18. Reinventing the 'Mistake on the Lake'.

    Philip Dodd visits the US rust-belt city of Cleveland.

  19. Russia and Fear.

    Rana Mitter considers fearing Russia past and present with Mark B Smith & Tamar Koplatadze

  20. Language and Belonging

    With Guy Gunaratne, Dina Nayeri, Michael Rosen, Momtaza Mehri and Deena Mohamed.

  21. Amitav Ghosh. Layla and Majnun. Islam Issa.

    Amitav Ghosh on linking refugees, climate change, Venice & Bengali forests in his fiction

  22. Cindy Sherman, Laura Cumming

    The art of Cindy Sherman plus art critic Laura Cumming on the days her mother disappeared.

  23. Jane Goodall, Elif Shafak

    Matthew Sweet talks to two campaigning women: a writer from Turkey and an animal expert.

  24. Catch 22, Recycling fashion, Fred D'Aguiar, Wu Mali

    Anne McElvoy watches George Clooney in Catch-22 on TV and looks at recycling fashion.

  25. Landmark: Finnegans Wake

    Matthew Sweet discusses James Joyce's groundbreaking novel of 1939.

  26. Afropean identities, Filming the Arab spring

    Johny Pitts and Caryl Phillips discuss the idea of Afropean identity with Matthew Sweet.

  27. Michael Rakowitz, Archaeology Now, Epic Journeys and Facial Disfigurement

    Artist, archaeologists, a writer and a historian of the face make the invisible visible.

  28. Breaking Down the Barriers

    The cultural contribution of Muslim women, and Rana Mitter talks to artist John Keane.

  29. Orwell's 1984 - a Landmark of Culture

    Matthew Sweet explores what fed into Orwell's future vision and how our own is shaping up.

  30. Is the Law keeping up with our changing world?

    A panel of researchers share insights into the law and warfare, gender and AI.

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